Baling-machine.



No. 875,652. PATENTED DEG. 31g 190?.

w. s. BRYAN.

'BALING MACHINE.

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g f r LWENTOR M .4 TTORNEV? No. 875,652. PATENTED DEC. a1, 1907.

- W. s. BRYAN.

BALING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 15, 1906.

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sists of a rotary annular feed member or turret 6 in the form of ahollow disk having slots 7 in its peri hery. The turret 6 preferably iseccentrica 1y disposed with respect to the center of the hopper A, asshown in Fig. 3, and is held in proper osition by means of a stationaryvertical s aft 8 which extends loosely through the center of the turret6 and acts as a bearing for said turret during its rotary movement.Fixed rigidly upon the stationary shaft 8 within the turret 6 is a diskor annular supporting member 9 which is eccentrically disposed withrespect .to the turret 6. Loosely surrounding the periphery of thestationary disk or supporting member 9 is a metallic band or collar 10with which is connected a pair of op ositelydisposed rotary feeding arms11 w h ably are curved, as shown, the feed arms 11 projecting outwardlyinto the slots 7 of the turret 6, so that as said turret is rotated inany suitable manner around the stationary shaft 8 in the direction ofthe arrow in Fig. 3, the arms 11, by engaging the rear ends of one orthe other of the peripheral slots 7, will be rotated-u ,on the disk orstationary supporting mem er 9. The eccentric arrangement of the disk 9with respect to the turret 6 causes the feed arm 11 at the right side ofFig. 3 to project itself gradually outward from the slot 7 of the turret6 so as to gather up a quantity of material in the lower end of I thehopper at one side of the turret 6, and to move the same outward throughthe outlet 1 into one of the baling chambers B. During this movement ofthe right feed arm, the left feed arm in Fig. 3 is gradually drawinginto its slot 7 so as not to project beyond the outer periphery of theturret 6 far enough to contact with the inner ends of the balingchambers. For the purpose of reventing wisps of hay or similar materialrom being disposed partly in one of the baling chambers B and partly inthe next adjacent cham her, said baling chambers are separated from eachother by means of knives 12 which are located at the meeting inner endsof said baling chamber.

The turret 6 is eccentrically disposed with respect to the center of thefeed hopper A in such manner that the portion of its pcriphery farthestfrom the center of the feed hopper A, that is, the portion of saidturret shown at the bottom of Fig. 3, will just graze the sharp innerends of the knives 12 during the rotation of the baling chambers withrespect to the feed hopper. For this reason the turret 6 will ress anywisps of hay or other material, w rich may be disposed partly in onebaling chamber and 'partly in another, up against the knives 12 andcause the same to be severed so that there will be no connection betweenthe material in one baling chamber and the material in the next adjacentchamber. Furtherich prefermore, it will be obvious that while the feedarms 11 throw the material outward'from the lower end of the feed hop erA on to the upper surface of the annular rame'3, the rotary movement ofsaid annular frame '3 together with the baling chambers B ,in thedirection of the arrow in Fig. 3, will cause the material which has beenfed outward on to said annular frame by the arms 1 1 to contact with theturret 6 which .is rotating in the direction'of the arrow, and willconsequently. force said material outward into the baling chambers B, atthe same time causing the material to be properly cut by the knives 12asthey pass close to the periphery of the turret 6, as described. Themeans for retating the turret 6 in the direction of the arrow preferablyconsists of a gear wheel 13 mounted on a curved supporting arm or brace14, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to be in mesh with the gear teeth 15formed on the upper surface of the turret. 6 The gear w eel 13 isrotated in any suitable manner, as by means of a belt extending downwardinto the hopper A and suitably shielded so as not to become entangledwith the material fed into said hop er.

Each of the balmg chambers B preferably is in the nature of arectangular box having its inner and outer ends open so that, after onebale has been formed and bound in the manner hereafter described, thematerial for the next bale, which was fed. into the inner end of eachbaling chamber, will contact with the rear end of the first mentionedbale and will ush the same gradually outward in the ra ial balingchamber until it is discharged from the outer end thereof. At the sametime the presence of the first mentioned bale which has been formed andhanded, acts as a retarding means for causing the proper packim of thematerial. which is 1' ed into each bal ing chamber for forming the nextbale.

For the pur ose of placing a tie wire around each ba e from end to endthereof during the operation of the machine, ea'clr baling chamber B isprovided with a lower wire reel 16 and an upper wire reel- 17. ThewirelS from each of the reels 16 and '17 passes around the inner edge ofeach baling chamber and then radially outward, as shown in Fig. 2, sothat the wire from the up er reel 1.7 is disposed between the upper enof the bale and the to of the baling chamber. and the wire from t elower reel 16 passes along between the bottom of the. bale and thebottom of the baling chamber. When the machine is first started thewires 18 from the two reels 16 and 17 are twisted or knotted. togetherso that as the material is fed gradually outward in the baling chamberit carries the wire with it and causes the same gradually to unwind fromthe reels.

The mechanism for intertwisting the wires time i8 from the two reels 16and i7 and for cutting the same when the bele has been extended to :theproper is th, is indicated generally by the reference etter 1C andconsists of a 5 supporting frame 19 which is mounted for verticalmovement upon a pair of standards or guides 20 mounted on each of thebelingchcmbers. .Suitebly journeled upon the ,supporting frame 19 is anoperstin shaft 21 ,10 which is provided at its outer en with an idleroller 22. The idle roller 22 rests normally upon an annular supportingtrack 23 {which extends around the upper end of the "circulariced-hopper A. As long as the idle -15 roller 22 engagement with thesupport mg track 23, the frame 19 of the tying and cuttingmeclmnism isheld'in raised position so that itslower end is reused above the belingchambers. The supportingo providsd at one oint with. what shall be.ermed s 'descen switch 2% in that its function when raised in themanner herein- Cefterdcscribed is to ermit the idle roller 22 tofmovedown the Beveled end the i 25 track 23 thus nermitti the lower endof the twistm an cutting mechanism to move 2; i downward into contactwits toe hole or 1113:- terml nthe bailing chamber. For the pun pose offorcing the twisting and cutting @fiojmiaalmniam;downward the bale sothat .',,--its lower end can engage the two wires and twistthe semetogether, the idle roller 22,'

:sfterit passesdown through the descending switch 24, engages the underside of a de ab-scalding track 26 which is in the nature of c:downwnrdlyinclined com member connected with the stationary hopper A.so that as the b stling chamber containingtlie frame 19 on which theoperating shaft 21 is iournziled '40 moves around the hopper A, the idleroller 22 will roll down the under surface of the descendingtreck 26 andwill consequently force the frame 19 downward between the bale and thehopper. When the idle roller 22 reaches the lower end. of the descendingtrack 26, a i a gear wheel 27, fixed on the operating shaft 21 of theframe 19, will move into mesh with'sn annular rack 28 which is fixedupon the stew tioncry hopper A, as shown. The rotary movement of theb'eling chamber will cause the gear wheel 27 to rotate the operatingshaft 21. The. rotation of the operating shaft 21 will be transmittedthrough the gear .wheels 29 and 30 to a gear wheel 31 which is fixedupon a shaft 32 ctthc lower end of the vertically-movable frame 19.

Mounted rigidly on the shaft 32, on opposite sides of the gear wheel 3i,is e pair of' twisting disks 33-33, as shown in Figs. 6 to It inclusive.Each oftlie disks 33 is provided with a pair of oppositely-disposedperipheral prc rigs-34. Adjacent each of the prongs 34, the disks 33 areformed with radially-extend ing slots 35, the gear wheel 31 being also.

form id with radial slots 36 to correspond with the slots oithe twistingdisks Adjocent the twisting disks 33, the vertically- ,movcble frame 19is provided with a deflee-tor in the nature of a loop of Wire which, asthe frame 19 descends, is adopted ioca-use the upper tie wire 18 tomove. up ward in the space between the deflector 37 end the disks 33. Itwill be understood that after the descending switch 24 has been openedin the manner hereinafter described and the roller 22 has moved down thelower face of the descending track 26, the uppertie wire 18 is engaged.between the deflector 37 and the twisting disks 33. When the gear wheel2? engages the stationary en n'ulur rack 28, the twisting disks 33 arerotated so as to engage the lower tie wire 18 at the point where itcrosses a, cut aw ay portion or de rsssion 38 in the bottom of thebaling chem e1. The two wires are then twisted together as shown in Fig.9. v

The mennsior cutting thetie wires 18 preferably consists of avoluteguide 39, the end 40 of which is extended upward and suitablyconnected with the frame 19. As the twisting disks 33 are rotated, thetwisted portions of the two tie wires move in between the differentconvolutions of the volute guide 39 until they reach the'inner end ofguide where they are moved into conta-ct with a knife 41 whicheffectually severs the bending wires, leaving the rear end of one boletied and also producing the proper connection between the band wires 18for the forward end of the next bale which is to be formed. As soon asthe bend wires 18 have been properly twisted together and cut, a volutespring 42, shown at the upper end of Fig. 5, which is connected at itsouter end with spin 43 and at its inner end with the operating shaft 21,serves to rotate said shaft in a reverse direction to restore thetwisting disks to the proper position for the next operation, it beingunderstood that the spring 42 is placed under tension when the operet-1,10 ing shaft'2l is rotated by the gear wheel 27, and it beingunderstood further that the spring does not not until the gear wheel 27is raised out of engagement with the rock 28 by reason of the fact thatthe idle roller 22 is moved into engagement with the lower end of anascending track or com member 44 mounted upon the stationary hopper A.The rotation of the beling chambers with respect to the hopper A causesthe idle roller 22 to move up the ascending track. 4.4 until it passesunder and raises an ascending switch 45 in the nature of a resilient rodadapted to yield upwardly when engaged by the roller 22. Having thusdescribed the manner in which the frame 19 carrying the twisting andcutting mechanism is moved downward and upward for the purpose ofjoining the wires 13, the mechanism for opening the descend- 1 30 ,nowbe described. Suitably journaled upon each of the baling chambers B is apin wheel 46, the radial pins 47 of which are adapted to projectdownward through a suitable slot in. the top of the baling chamber so asto be in position to be engaged by the bale of hay as it is graduallymoved outward, the object of the pin wheel 46 being to cause theoperation of the twisting mechanism when the bale has grown to the proer length. Mounted upon the shaft 48 of t 1e pin wheel 46 is a bev'elgear 49 which is in mesh with a bevel gear 50 upon a shaft 51, as shownin Fig. 10. The shaft 51 is provided with a ratchet wheel 52 which isadapted to be engaged by a spring pawl 5-3 upon a controlling disk 54.The ratchet mechanism described causes the controlling disk 54 to rotatewith the shaft 51,

and atthe same time it permits said controlling disk to be rotatedloosely in a forward direction whenever desired. The controlling disk 54is formed in one side with a socket or depression 55 which is adapted atone point in the rotation of the controlling disk 54 to receive a finger56 upon an endwise-movable bar 57 which is mounted in suitable guidesupon the baling chamber. When the outward movement of the bale hasoperated the pin wheel 46 sulliciently to rotate the controlling disk 54until the socket 55 is in line with the finger 56, a spring 58 which, asshown in Fig. 2, is suitably mounted upon the baling chamber and bearsagainst a .pin 59 on the bar 57, throws said bar forward so that thefinger 56 enters the socket 55 and the forward end 60 of the bar 57 ismoved close against the outer periphery of the feed hop er A, saidforward end being provided wit an anti-friction roller 6] as shown inFigs. 1 and 2. As the baling chamber rotates with the forward end 60 ofthe bar 57 close to the feed hopper A, said forward end 60 engages androcks a lever 62 which, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, isconnected in any suitablemanner with the descending switch 24 so as toraise the same and thus permit the idle roller 22 which controls thetwisting and cutting mechanism to roll downwardagainst the under side ofthe descending track and thus throw the twisting and cutting mechanisminto operation. As the baling chambers continue to rotate, the roller 61ofthc endwise-movable bar, 57 engages or rolls over a projection 63connected with the ascending track 44. The engagement of the roller 61with the projection 63, as shown in Fig. 2, serves to throw the bar 57backwards so that the finger 56 leaves the socket or depression 55. Theprojection 63 throws the bar 57 rcarwardly for a greater distance thanis necessary to withdraw the linger 56 from the socket 55. This finger56, has left the socket 55 causes an inclined cam member or wire yoke 64on the tending outward from the periphery of the controlling disk 54 andthus In'ove saiddisk forward a sufficient distance'to carry the when theroller 61 moves out of contact with the projection 63, the finger 56will move into contact with the controlling disk 54 and will therebyserve to hold the bar 57 in its rearmost position until a sufiicientlength of bale has been fed outward in the baling chamber l to rotatethe pin wheel 46 and thus cause the descending switch 24 to be a ainthrown into rpose of permitting the operation for the pu anlsm.

ing and cutting mechanism into operation before the movement of thematerial throligh the baling chamber has caused the pin wheel 46 torotate the controlling disk 54 until the finger 56 enters the socket55,'said controlling disk can be moved forward by hand until the finger56 enters the socket or depression 55, this forward movement of thecontrollin disk 54 being permitted by the sprin paw 53'wiping idly overthe ratchet whee 52 of the controlling disk. In this Way a comparativelyshort bale of material can be made in sired.

The baling machine of the present invention is extremely strong, simple,durable and inexpensive in construction, as well as thoroughly efficientin operation. Furthermore, it is adapted to produce a lar e number ofbales of material in a practically continuous manner for the reason thatthe operation of each baling chamber is practically inde endent of theoperation of the othle'r balin 0 ambers. It will be understood also tatthe twisting and cutting mechanism of each bal ingchamber isautomatically controlled by the length of the bale of material which hasthe twisting and cutting mechanism will notbe operated until the propertime whether the feed of material to the baling chamber be fast or slow.

If desired, a suitable wheel may be used I for packing the material intothe turret should it be deemed advisable to supply material to themachine by hand Coil springs may be attached to the wheels 46 so as torevent the wheels from tearing through the liayshould considerableresistance be offered to their rotation.

What is claimed is 1. A baling machine having a centrall disposed feedhopper, and a plurality. of be ing chambers radiating therefrom,saidfeed continued movement of the bar 57 aftr the 7 operation of thetwisting and cutting mech-i If it should be desired to throw thetwistbar 57 .to contact with a curved pin 65 ex socket 55 out of linewiththe finger 56 sothat each of the baling chamberswhenever de-' l beenformed in'said chamber; in otherwords,

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term. wheel on bClN/QGP s disks, a cutter mounted adjacent the center ofthe volute guide, controlling mechanism for automatically throwing thetwisting and cutting mechanism into operation, said controllingmechanism consisting of a pin wheel adapted to contact with the movingmaterial in the baling chamber, a controlling disk rotated by the pinWheel and having a socket, a longitudinally movable bar having a fingerbearing against said controlling disk, a roller carried by the inner endof said bar, a descending switch lever adapted to contact with the innerend of said bar for opening the descending switch, a projection carriedby said feed hopper for engaging said bar and throwing the sameoutwardly, a cam member carried by said bar, and a pin on saidcontrolling disk adapted to be engaged by said cam member.

14, A baling machine having tying and cutting-mechanism provided with avolute guide having a cutter adjacent the center thereof.

15. A baling machine having a feed hopper, a baling chamber radiatingtherefrom, means for producing relative rotary movement between saidhopper and baling cham her, band twisting mechanism mounted on saidbalin'g' chamber and adapted to be projected into-and cross the same, acircular rack secured to the feed hopper, and a driving gear adapted tooperate the band twlsting mechanism when brought into engagement withsaid rack when said mechanism enters the baling chamber.

16. A baling machine having a feed hopper, a baling chamber radiatingtherefrom,

means for producing relative rotary movement between said hopper andbaling cham- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I havehereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM SILOUS BRYAN: Witnesses:

WHITE DARNALL,

W. E; HOOKER.

